good morning. will it work? the presidt's plans t fix a broken promise over hlth care. this morninginsurance executiv in some states are scramblingamid growing questions over the future of obama care. new this morning. alec baldwin suspende the acr kept off the air from his late night tk show on msnbc as he apologizesor his profane outbur against a photographer. that kid saves the da a wish com true for a 5-year-old cancer survivor. >> i want to be batman. >> you get to be batman? >> a thousands turn out to watch the minikid crusader capture not onlycriminals, but r arts. "today" saturday,ovember 16th,

20. good morng, everyone. welcome to today on a sad. i'm lester holt. >> i'm erica hillalonide dylan dreyernd craig melvin in this morning for jenna. >> nice to know that batman is on t set! >> it is >> it is nice to know that batman is o the job orat kid. >> if w need him, i fee nfident calling him for pretty much anything. >> it s good to see so many people p their lives on hold out there yesterdaynd come together. >> he was saving people and disarming bombs. i love it! >> n matter for bat kid. i ink we all kind of need a good story to rally around in this country right now. this is it. >> it has been rough week and tell you more of his stories. one of the stories that h

made a rough week is what is going on if nthe philippines after the typhn leashed that devastation there. this morning we will tell but therantic effort to save the people who are the survivors. also what is a story out of connectit that leaves a lot of ople with their mout hanging open because they can't believe how it happened. anntire sool district inne wn may have to shut down because of some allegations there so we will get into tt story and let you know wther or not the school has to shu down. as american as ale pie and youth football but we have learned the number o kids playing is goingay down and a lot of people e wondering is it about the concussions? and are those worrieswarranted? coming up, what every parent need toknow. we begin with this morning's top story,heate of preside obama' health care plan. snurns are now deciding whether or not they will go along with the president's request t let people keep tir canceled insurance policies.

krisn welker is live at the white house with the latest developments for us. >> reporter: good morning to you. insurance officials said it could take days, if not longer, to figure out how to elem the president's request t the millio of americans whose insurance plans have been canceledan actually keep tho plans and they feel as tugh present obama had pked aot potato on t em. on frid, president obama m with 15 insurance compaes ceos here at the whithouse to figure out the next step and how to implement this practically. public all decides describing that meeting as productive but one insurance official tells me privately there is still a l of confusion, namely, how are we thing go meet this deadline and reverse course under sh a ght time crunch? the first deadline enroment comes up in a month. they sayhis will dri up premiums. some state legislators,

including in washington state and aansas say they ar not going along wi this further compoundinghe potical problem for the president on iday, 39 democrats, many who are facing tough re-ection bales, spoke with presidentbama to vote for a republican-bacd bill that would deal with this who iss legislatively. at doesn't address t issue with the webte which is still not functioning properly. the adminisation insists it will be running smoothly for most americans by thend of the moh. th is really a critical deadline and wl determine whether or not the administration can actually stop the bleeding of this huge political problem. by the way, iurance officials telling policyholders who have received those cancellation notices to give eir insurance companies a ek, at least, to figure outext step and then you might wt to place a call to them toigure out what your next steps are. they also recommend going on to the website toigure out what other options exist.

>> a lot of options ere. thank yo dr. ze emanuel is from the university of nnsylvania. thanks for being with us. nice to be here. >> reporter: a lot of ste officials are saying look we went along with the program and now you want to make the chae and so s they will not allow them to keep thenner i don't member insurance products. if yere running one of these in the state what would you do? >> the long-term sution to this problem is get the wibt up and running andake sure it's runng and that this stop wh the ivate -- with the individual market, which no one liked before, remember, one of the main reasons for health care reform is to get rid of ts rket which is pret capricious and a lot of cancellations an preexisting conditions. i understand the insurance commissioners don'think it's a great soluti to the problem and having the w and the

exchange in the state working is the best solutio uchlt iere part of the pnning of the present's health care plan, so do you go along with wha he wants to do now and giveeople the right to keep their existin plans? >> look. again, i don't tnk that is the solution to the problem and certainly the republican bill trs to solve what isn't a problem. they let anyone go into these preexisting pns and that seems like -- that not the problem. the problem is the few people being canced plans they have had a and not open them up to everyone and clely an effort to unrmine the affordable care act. >> is it more of a broken policy than a good policy decision? >> again, from a policy decision, i do think tting the exchanges is your number one goal, that is clearly the key thing, getting it up a running and mang sure it's smooth d i think this issue with a few million people, mae a few

million people. we really don't kno how many people there are with the cancellation notices that had grandfathered plans that is reallyot the core of the problem. >> how much disruption could this be to t rketplace? we have heard great fears i this plan goes forwar this could undermine the entire obama care program. >> i think if anyone is bei honest,e juston't know, because you don't know how my peop are going this route to these indivial plans that are out ofhe exchange andow many people are going into the exchange, and whether we will get to the 7 million that has been predicted. th is really the important focus is are we going to get 7 million people in these exchanges by thend of march? if we do then rewing these plans and eliminating the cancellations a side show in the e. >> d zeke emanuelthanks for being on bus this morning. >> no problem. the death tolln philippines is 2,0.

aid from the world is pouring i to the hdest hit regions. chief medical correspondent dr. nancy snyderman is in cebu for us this moing. >>ood morning. >> rorter: the world has deended upon cebu. hind me planes from saudi arabia and unit arab emirates and singapo and israeli and unit states, of course, australia, all figuring how to get people out a aid in. it's been a complicad week. international relief aid is uring into in the hardest hit area of tacloban eightays after a dastating typhoon slammed into the phippines. after the inial days ofhaos when aid was nowhere to be fou for the hundred ofhousands lefthomeless, finally, some hope. toda u.s. navy helicopters fromhe "uss george washington" are droppg food and water supplies to isolated communities deerate for any help. the mission?

fijed a w to fd those who survived the storm and the sech for the missing on the back burner. not all d and assistance are reaching those who nee it the most on the remote island some have not seen relief from international encies. >> we needelp. we nd help. we nee your help. water especially food, first aid, medicin and some of us only one clojs. >> the water system in the village was destroyed by the storm and no ridents are gettg water from a well and they boil the water before drinking. in other areass hunger sets in, some have turnedooting shops. the survivors nowacing a lon struggle to rebuiltheir attered lives salvaging what they can amid the vastation. there has been a lot of

criticism, of course, abouhow aid has gott to people. i should say this is a technologil and strategic and geographic nightmare. there are 7,000 islands in this country and having been here now for ove a week,'ve seen how diffult it is to get through roads with fauen trees and to get boats across the way, and i should tel everyone in the united statewe have real reason to be proud of the u.s military. they have shown up a done their best and none of the relief will beorking ift ren't for the u.s.military. >> dr. nancy snyderman for us thisorning, thank you. a detroit man bind bars this morning facing second-degree murder charges in a case drawn national attention. police say he shot and kild a young woman who came t his house possibly looking for hp aftea car accident. here is kevin tibbles. >> reporter: the funeral of a detroit teenage, 19-year-old mcbride killed after being sho in the face in the mdle of the nighon the front steps of a home isuburban detroit heights.

>> i just shot somne on my front porch with a shotgun. >>eporter: police weren the scene at 4:46.m. >> somebody down on the porch. >> reporter:he man who lived that home, 54-year-old theodore wafe now faces murder charges. according to police, renisha mcbride who word at fordad smashed into another vehicle with her car at 12:57 a.m witnesses say she wandered away from the scene and nearly four hours later, she was dead from a shotguwound just a few blocks away. in the days following, protesters gathed comparing her dth to the trayvon martin case. >> justice. >> reporter: mcbride's famil say she was likely just seeking help. >> i can't imagine in my wildest eams what that man feared from her. to shoot her in her face. >> reporter: aoxicology report shows mcbrideas nearly three times over the legal alcohol limi for driving. and that she had traces of marijuana in her blood.

while michan does not he the sa stand your ground law discussed in therayvon martin case, theode wafer could claim self-defense. >> heaso show that hwas in fear and thought she was breaki in and she was aanger to him andis family and his home. >>eporter: one community activist says mcbride'samily does not want her death tbe a matter of race. >> any 19-year-old girl might be in similar suation and that should bng us togethe as a community to dand justice and not separate u at all. >> reporter: for "today," kevin tibbles, nbc ws, chicago. there are more questions than answers this morning in the case of a califora family w had been missing for years. now after fou years, the remains were receny discovered in a california desert. investigors must now figure ounot only how they got there, buhow they died. miguellmaguer has the stor >> reporter: the four bods discovered in the desert outside los angeles ends the nearly

fourear search for the mcstay family and begins a homicide investigation. for relatives like mik mcstay, hope is now gone. >> it's not rlly the -- the outce we were looking for. >> reporter: detectives have positively identified jseph and summercstay and two boys gianni and joseph, we shall shallowl in a grave. they disappeared from their home in early 2010 and detectives say there was no sign of any struggle >> i'm hing so much fun. >> reporter: the mtay's car was discovered day after they disappeared near mexico.

poce even released veo of what appears to be aamily ossing border but every lead, a dead d. >> whether or not they actually crossed theorder and then came ba, we are not sureyet. >> reporter: with the trail cold, was a passer-by who discovered skeletal remains in victorville thiseek. >> igives us courage to ow they areogether and they are in a better place. >> reporte near four years after they vanished, the mcsy's bodies have been recovered but the mystery in the desert is far from over. for "today," miguel almaguer, nbc news, s angeles. time for thether stories making headlines this morning. >> cig melvin is here for that. one of the elite universities is looking for help with an outbreak of meningitis

this morning a medicine not proofed in the united states mabe on the way to princeton, university. government health officials are importing at vaccine. far studes have been infected scemarch. alec baldwin's show has been suspended by mississippsnbc. the situation sts from a confrontation baldwin hadn thursday with a photographer. baldwin used a gay slurnd later apologized for his choice of rds. we will have more on that story in o next hour. >> it took some200 firefighters abo two hours to get a massi fire under control in chicago. the flame engulfed a strip mall on the city's nth side. fire offials say a cre used

roing torches t spark the flame and no injurieseported there. a 0e-foot wide sinkhole contues to tlehreaten a neighborhood in dunedin, which is 20 miles nor of st. petersburg. the home had to be condemne afr asinkhole sllowed the house. >> for some tang a cat on a walk is pretty odd. what about this? taking an 11-year-old, tortois. they usually go about ten blocks and once they hit the sidewalk, heads turn. a lot of folksust want to stop and pet spike's shell. thewner has to have a great deal of patienc because as you can see there, that is not a brisk walk at all.

>> i guess why they ly do it twice aweek. >> and i takes about three hours. >> in the meantime, the hare is waiting in the wings getting ready. oh! the we go. man on fire this morng. >> hello, dylan! >> you always justhrow it to me, that one last little jab. we have some really pretty pictures to show you of snowflakes. the is a photographer in russia who set up this camera to take these high-resolion snowflakes. they arell different as you know and it depends on temperature and humidity and you get the complex shapes the higher the humidity is. the lower the humidity, t pretty onesith the extra offshoots and this has the rainbow colors in tre meaning the hudity is higher. speaking of the snow lot in the northwest and higher elevations and a low pssure

stem sitting through montana right now and produce a lot of snowfall inhe higher elevations all throughout the day today and ooevenlted moving from the cascades into the rockies and we do have winter weather advories and warnings and the chance of gus w gad saturday morning to you. we're seeg some chilly condionso get your morning started. st some hazy skies currently looking at 50egrees. spilling into the bay areas at times. thisooler air mas today dropping into the bay area making the temperatures feel like the low 60s outside. 62 in san he say and to the nort bay,62 for napa and 63 degrees today in danvill lester >> dylan, thanks. this coming week marks an anniversary few will ever forget. 50 years ago, predent john f. kennedy was mdered and two days later, his assassin, lee

harvey os waltz was also shot to death. in a rare interview i sat down with a -year-old detective who interrogated oswald and with m whene was gunned down. >>eporter: the police had their man and when it tk the ti of jack ruby t raise the gun from his hand. he had the pistol in his hand. >>eporter: you knew that was meantor lee harvey ososwald. >> oh, yes. >> reporter: he was dead as he rush through a crush of lice and porters and handcuffed t dallas police detective jim levell. >> i jerked ck on him to pull him behind me. instead of movg himurned his body a little bit sonstead of hitting him dead center,it him three ches left of the v nal. >> you were trng to protect oswald? >> yes but didn't have any leverage. >> reporter: there had been phone threatagainst oswald

>> i thought if anybody shot at him i was as good of a shot as heas meaning in the course they would hit him, not me. he laughed and said, "noby is going to shoot at me. >> rorter: detective levelle was the lt ones to talk to oswald in the twist a turns he was also one of thefirst. 45 minutes after the president was sh, word camhat a dallas police officer had been shot andilled. the suspect? lee harvey oswald andetective jim levelle was assigned the case. he qstioned oswald, unare of that moment of his connection to e president's shooting. >> remember a lot about him. he wasery calm and collected just like you and i sitting here talking. he awered my questions mediately. he didn't answer them truthfully always but he didn't hesitate to answer any of the questions i asd. >> reporter: t suit he wore that day are now displayed in a museum feature from where oswald shot the president. level, e aepts his place in

history and history's judgment did you feel that y failed in your dy to protect him? >> elevate. he died, didn't he? i woulday i failed. >> reporter: is a story kate grew up hearing, levelle's daughter, a lmmaker, decided three yrs ago to documt her grandfather's story. >> as i stted to interview him and his colagues back then, i larger story start to stand out to me. >> t prime suspect. >> reporter:n a documentary eenling focuses her lens on wh she believes is overfeet look of deteive work by dallas police. >> when you look at recent events unabomber it isike would you the gps and wale talkies that they we able to carpet oswald theime they

did. >> reporte jim levelle dismissing the uncertainties he ca face-to-face with and died beforeis eyes planned and caied out thessassination of president kennedy by himself. the cops had their man. cod you imagine 50 years later you would still be telling the story? >> i couldn't imagine it back then. in fact, if anybody had ask me ght after it ppened, how long it would ben the news, i said, giv it six months and you won'hear anything else about it. >> reporter: well, you were wrong. >> y, i was. yes, i was wrong go. >> he has letters lining the shelves. he has got all requests from conspiracy theoristsnd people trying to fure out wt did we miss? heaid we investigated second and third shooter and it wasn't there. heets all of these books from authors who want his endorsement. i go, do you read them? he said, no. thshelf is full of them bute doesn't read them.

>> theomment about how quily this w done without the modern technogy we see today. >> i didn't realize it was 88 minutes. he was pked up fornother ime but ultimately they got thr man. still to come on on saturday in today a small town official accused of eezzling millions of dollars andhe town's schl hangs inhe balance. we will have that story. but, first, this is "tay" on n. [ wi howling ] [ femalennouncer ] it balances you... [ watecrashing ] ...it fills you with energy... d it gives you what you are looking for to live a more natal life. in aonvenient two bar pa. this is natu valley... delicious granola bars de with the best ingredients in natur

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still ahead on a saturday morning, fewer parents letting their kid play youth football. does i have anything to do with theear of head

as you head outdoors this morning, you certainly want to bundleup. the reason why it is so cold right now is a weather syste not bringing us any rain but just o to the east, you can

see the sw on the east side of the sier. around theay area today, we'll see high clouds coming in and thisooler air spilling in from the north really dropping r temperatur down this morning. we will wake up to 30s and 40s here coming up in the comg mornings. 62 in sheen say. san francisco about 6 1 degrees. to t north, we should s temperatures to 64 in santa sa. pleasantton lely the warm spot today. >> thank you very much. . >> the tunnel opened just before 4:30his morning. chp guidi the first drivers there will be four dedicated lanes in both directionsat a times on highway 4

officialsay the new tunnel is wider, taller and brighte a thether three bore >> shots fired end in a homicide. police re called around 7:30 last night foreports of shots fired at a shopping center on west san carlo street. we're told onef the offers fire.earby and heard the gun when pice arrived, they found he may have been sitting in his pickup tck when the soting happed. the manas taken to valley medical center and he diepd an hour and half later. one neighbor said he he saw the flashing lhts from his living >> it could be a multi-million dollar clerical error. a new diste over the contract between bart a its unions. last night bart directors voted to head bk to the barknding table cause bart disputes the

wording in the contrac that would require the transit agency to cover six weeks of id familyeave. however, uni leaders say that poe posal was also agreed to and signed off by both parties. thomas hop will no longer lead tops for bart. accordg to leads, the family medical leave policy m cost bart $4 million over four year we have all the day's news coming up for you on "today in the bay" and more local news in just 30 minutes. flakey. that's half. that's not hf! guys, i have more. thks, mom. [ female announcer ] do y have enough pillsbury crcents? so i should probably get t last roll... yeah but i practiced mbassoon. [ mom ] and i liened. [ brothe] i can do this. [ imitates robot ] eryone deserves ooey, gooey, pillsbury cinnamon rolls.

make t weekend pop. ♪ we are back on this saturday morning. it is november 16th, 2013. lks out this braving few raindrops this morning and to come spe time with us weill head out to say hello in a little bit. nice to have you at he with us as well on ts saturday morning. ahead we will talk about the dangers of contact sports. >> new information emerging that more parents are choosin not to let their young kids play football. brett favre an all-time great saying if he had a son hes not sure if he would let him take the fieleither. we will talk to some parentsnd a coege player who quit saying playing the game he loves is not worth the risk. the 5-year-old who took on gotham cit as the caped crusader and saved damezell in

distress. he touched hearts alover the country. we got a chance to talk with him and share wh you. alec baldwin under fire again. the latest onis suspension from mbc for controversial remarks he made to a photographern the streets of new york. a small town of connecticut is on the verge of bankruptcy and the kidsho live there who may pay the ultimate price. kristen dahlgren hat lates for us. >> reporter: the town is recovering from the allege emzzlement by the finance director to the tune of $2 million. now scols could be shut down by the end othe year because the town might not be able to pay thpeople who run them. w winstead, connectit. they say they are living a nighare after henry sintrello was accused of embezziing almost

$2 million toelp his life with a mistress in florida. >> i cant understd how somebody could do that to children. >> reporter: res datesay the twisted tale has left the town etering on bankruptcy and their schools in danr of closing within weeks if something isn't don >> ian't conceive of tha happening but if we don have money to pay staff, how do we operate a school? we can't ask employe to come to workor nothg. >> on fridayhe pleaded not guilty to first-degree larceny. his attorney had no comment but prosecutors said these are serious arges. >> however, you know, very important case, we are giving it a good deal of attention. >> rorter: an aftward obtained b nbc news reveals allegations of a secret life. a mistress supposedly in florida saying he made thamoney on google stock andelling land with disney. now the59-year-old is being ld on a hundred thousand

llars bond and facing five countsfarceny and today residents are talking about borrowinthe $2 milli to fund their scols. >> something has to be done. do we like it? no p. but we have put ourselves in this position and where we ha to go. reporter: for the tn's children there is onl one discern -- what is next for them? >> i would say you better hurry th heck up, you know? because i don't wt to go to different school. >> reporter:s they wa to see if their schools can be saved. polls in the town close at 8:00 tonight. the superintennt tel me they hopeo get enough votes to get thloan and keep the school opened but the loan has to be paid back som way but either way,he people ithe tn are are a enough spot. >>he little boy, hurry your act up and get your act together. make our way to dylan who has made her way out on the plaza. >> the umbrella a little bit much as it is only sprinkling

out here where aryou from? >> bost. >> ias there last sunday. so thank you for coming down here today. makes it easier r me. whave showers in the northeast and back to the plains we are looking at temperatures to be about 20 deges above normal. strong southwest wd helping to get temperatures up to 77 in okhoma city so we will be flirting with recordtoday although it shouldn't be record eaking. on sunday, chicago gets in at 66 degrees. we are lking at 80 in little rock, arkansas. so temperatures will be well above average and ahead o a cold front that is bringing stronger storms. the best chancef stronger stms through eastern iowa and western parts of illinois and a big snstorm moving through the cascades into the rockies where have winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings and high wind warnings as well. pretty active pattern. out ahead of the front looking at rain orms and bind the front looking for it to be cold a very chilly start to the

morning arnd the bay area. in the 40s this morning.nta ra 50 in san francisco. we have clear skies,ool and breezy conditions around the bay area as this cold air continues drop in from the north,e're not expecting any showers. those are going to stay off to the east you'll you'll note hour tops climbg hour by hour mid 60 around the north bay valley. erica? >>ylan, thanks. ahead i wanto introduce you to the two people who inspire me ase continue our series inspired by. they inspire me with the love and jon rossity from complete strangers. and women trying to get pregnant, we will tell you why and women trying to get pregnant, we will tell you why some women to get more.hicalt ry cuz more is better. when good isn't go enough, more is grt. and getting more is what 's all about with the new mcdonals dollar menu & more.

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in some respects, i'm almt glad i don't have son because of t pressures that heould face. >> favre may not be the onl concerned parent. pop warner, which is the largest youth football ornization, says parcipation rates dropp 10% between 2010 and 2012. brett taking this semester off from college so he can recover from his thirdootball concussion and he is with us this morning along wh his dad darren and also with us is doctor. dr., i want to startith you. i'm sure parents come in and they talk to you about is. people askou questions. if a parent came to you and said, i'm concerned about the possibility of a concussion o a head injury, should i lety child play football? what do you say? >> that's a great question. in my office, i deal with that all the me. i think it's difrent for eve parent a for every ki yoknow, i always start that discsion by saying the risk of inactivity is much greater than

the risk of any acvity. so our biggest problems people not doing ough. we have a huge problem with obesity but ccussions particularly ihink the more we learn about th and the more we are learningbout it in kids makes us all very cautious and individual decision by parent >> what do you do if you have a kid come in with a concussion and do you vise them to go back and when it's safe? >> the key thing about concussion which is quite fferent in kids than adults this is the ly injury in sports medicine that actlly healslower in ks than adults so we are very careful with kids. we make sure their symptoms are fuy better before the get on the field and if they ve multiple concussions we talk about trying to find another sport. >> you'v had multiple concussions, brett. you did very welwith the sport playg in college. trity. you made a decision to leave aafter your third discussion. what happened? how did theast one chang your life? >> i oginally got my first ncussion this yearnugust

during training camp ding the firs practice. i went through the process to rerno play. you have to be symptom-free for 24 hoursnd you do certain activities and i came back from my first padd praice after my fir concussio and 24 hours i was back to square one being in what i feel full-on concussion lanis what i call it. >> what is that? >> you are dizzy andiercing migraines and i couldn'teave myoom by i had to way sulasses when i went outside. pretty much my lif was on standstill 24/7 in my dorm run. >> darren,o hearour s talk about what that is like, you're watching that as a dad. is there ever a moment when you said, maybe i shouldn'tet him play football? >> we certainly reached that moment after going back to school andistening to him and discussing what wasoing on. me a his mher went back there and really looked at the portunity to see whate could dohe next step.

it was an awareness progra we realize therotocol system is good. once you lack symptomsou can get back on the field, but wh you were unaware of the next step and thats where we are in the process no and that is healing th brain becse the brain needs a total differe dynac to heal. >> did you think thegame, though, needs to change soou dot have to worry so much will healing the brain? i think the game doesn'teed to ange. i think what nee to hapn is the awareness of hling the brain needs to be so much of a gger effort fm youth football through the professional side and tt is what happens. these young mennd ladies get off the fiel whatever srt ey are playg, and they are without the tools to teach themselves how to heal the brain after the damage occurs. >> you say every sport is important. it's not just ftball this can occur. brett,fter what happened to you if your child came to you and said hey, i want to play otball, your answ? >> it's hard to say bause i n't have any kids ye >> b knowing what happen you're thinking down theine or another parent saishould i let my kid doing what you're dog? >> knowing what i do now, kind

of wha my dad said. it'smportant to know theteps to recover you brain. as a college -- i played pop rner. all through the years i was traineto be the fastest and the biggest andrained to be the best footbalplayer out there andobody trained me on w to take carof my head. everyone trained me how to ka ca of my body and recov my bo but nobody taughte how to recover my head afterhe season. i think if that decisn comes around, it's important to kind educate my kid a maybe the ds around him to recover their brain after e season, do the ings that are needed, t steps to be taken. >> to makehat aart of the learning process as well as you learn the game? >> absolutely. >>ice to have you a with us this morning. thank you for your time as well. u can see more of matt lauer's interview with btt favre on monday only on "day." aad ts morning, bath time gets awfully cute for a pair of twins. that is after the break.

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♪ gd morning. it's saturday, november 16th, 2013. here is aook at today's top stories. will it rk? the white house tries to f a brokenromise over health care, ile insurance companiesegin the mad dash to answeruestions anmany americans wonder will i be covere alec baldwin is suspended t two weeks on his show on msnbc for a comment he made to a photographer. a 5-ye-old comes to the reue of a woman in distress and ses the city fro evil. we will have more onhe cape cr crusader. also ahead o this saturday

morning a majo heah care on thcampus of princeton university. thousands of students may be vaccined for a rare outbreak ofmeningitis. we head north to canada where toronto city council is trying to strip their mayor. rob ford says he is not going anywhere. also a bit ter, the people wh inspire us. this morning, i'm sharing with you the couple who inspires me. pa of our "ipired by" series on today. they lost thr youngest son pete peter in the september 11th attack >> we want to begin this morning with a scramble by insurance companies to figure out how and if they will be able to restore millionsf canceled health coverage plans fext year at the president's urging. kriste welker i live at the

white use to tell us more. >> repter: good morning to you. indust insiders say it could be days, if not longer, before insurance companies figure out how to proceed so policyholrs shld be patient, but also proactive. dea is one of the millions of amerans who got a letter from he insurce company canceling her health ce plan becauset doesn't meethe new obama care requirements. >> nearly fell out of the chai i mean it was a he shock. >> reporter: and while she welcomed presidentbama's announceme this week tt he'll allow insurance companies to renew old plans for a year she is also skeptical. >> to me, a x would be if you like your plan, you can keep ur plan, period. >> reporter: many iurance companies are fuming sayg the president passed a political hot potato on to them. on friday, insurance ceos met with the president at e white house to figure out how toake mr. oba's fix work. >> what we are going to be doing is brainstoing on h do we

make sure that evebody understands what theirptions are. >> reporter: andfterearly two hours of discussion, t ceos struck a positive tone. >> very productive meetin very gd discussion. >> reporter: but privately many are still at a loss about how theyill change course so quickly with enrollment deadlines aonth away and warning some premiums could stl go up. >> wt do y choose if you're a insurance cpanies ceo? a logistical nightmare or do you say nto the policyholders and be the bad guy who is ting yo health insurance away? >> reporter:he advice for consumers, be proactive. >> wait one week for the inrance companies to me their decisions what they are going to do here. then i would call the iurance company. >> reporter: persico says she plans to dohat but she wants washington to ac too. >> i wld say, please f this. i mean, reay fix this. >> reporter: n some say

including washingto state and arkansas say they will not go along with the president's x. further compounding the president's fther political problem on friday, mt democrats facg tough re-election battles vote with the president to vote withouse republicans to arove a republican-backed bi to deal with this and this is the president'legacy that is on the line. >> kristen welk, thank yo a major healthoncern this morning on the campus o princeton university why an outbreak of a rare and potentially deadly disee. isten is here with more on this story. >> like most hools, princeton does require student toet a vaccination fo meningitis but unfortunately that doesn't care the rare type b strain thatas sickened seven people at e university a the cdc is concerned it is now looking into a vaccine that hasn' been proofed in the u.s.

>> repter: since the spng, seven students hav fallen ill with meningitis b. a strain that kills 10% of young adultsnfected andne not coved by vaccinations given to u.s. colge students. >> you never think is going to happen to you but especially when you d't have the protection you norlly do have against meningitis. >> reporter: on friday the dc gave the oka to import this medicine. it could aow princetono inocate all 8,000 students to prevt the spread. >> if they do good reseah on the side eects and i would takehe vac keen. >> reporter: it staed when a studen returned frompring break. six haveontracted the bacteria incling a male student hospitalized last weekend. >> they have a very, very bad headache. maybe the worstype of hdache that they have evehad. >> reporter:ntil vaccinations for the b-strain arrive the school will continue to educate, students and faculty and staff

on way to protects themselves and others that included an e-il to all students this week and this is homecoming wkend so that means a lot of people inlose quarters. they are very conceed. now the vaccine is improved b the cdc,herustees will discuss the iss over the weekend. erica, i'm headed downo princeton after the show today so we will have much me tonigh onnightly news." >> and homecomi this weekend, so many more people there too. jonatha martin the dolphins player who ss he was bullied by teammateichie inckocognito spoke out yestery. kerry sanders is in tampa now to tell us more abo it. good morning. >> repter: good morning, lester. when the dolphins losthis week the pviously winless tampa bay bucks it was seen as many as

of the field straction. the players now wonde what their teammate jonathan martin telling em. what are you expecting to happen today? >> reporter: in new york, jonathan martin met for more than seven hours behind closed doors with the nfl poied instigator ted wells. the dolphins player emerged at the end of the day wi a brief statemt. >> i went intoreat daily with mr. ted wells and i do not intend to discu this matter publicly at thtime. >> reporter:artin says when the time is right h is eager to speak dectly with the dolphins owner and tea management >> beyond that, i look forward to worng through the process and resuming my career in the national footbl league. >> reporter: yesterday was the first time martin had told his story outside of family, agents, and lawyers. he walked away from the dphins the end of october. six days later, the dolphins

suspended temate richi incognito in part for using the "n" word on martin'sell phone. suspendeplayers are not paid. incognito'case, that is $235,000 a week he is not getting. in an elusive interview with matt lauer that will air on monday morning, former nfl star quarterbackrett favre exprsed surprise how the store is playing out. what was yr initial reaction when you you heard ts story? >> m initial reactionis, gout to beidding me. >> reporter: why? >> pro otball, bullying? we are playing -- it'she toughest ort, most violent, not to mention men some older than otherso it's not like a 12-year-old on the playgrod. it's not defending or condoning. all i'm saying is my initial reaction was arown man who i

320 poundss gettingbullied? >> reporter: t dolphins played the san diego chargers tomorrow. again, they will be playing without their two starting offeive linen whose job it is to protect the quarterback and who will be missed if that quarterbk is repeatedly sacked. lester >> kerryanders this morning, thank you. let's get caught up on the other top stories ernit. a week aft a super typhoon battered t philippines immense need remns along the coast withany areas still unuched by aid. chief medical edir dr. nancy snyderman is in cebu with the latest from there. >> craig, good morng to you. >> repter: it has bee a complicateprocess because of the geography of the philippines. behind me is the air bass in cebu, philippines. we have seen international aid and plane arriving from saudi arabia, singapore, iael and australia and the uned states.

it is very iortant for americanto understand while it's easy to criticize the logistics from gtingargo from this tarmac to islan hundreds of milesway can be daunting. i've been flying every day over this countryside and every while i'llook down and see a town devastated that probably hasn't ceived aid. it's been slow. it's been painful. and, obvious, the world has taken note. but inc. kra mingit but i think can 2457k thank the u.s. arm andavies and manes have come in and we have watched them drop fd and supplies and water to those remote places. it'seen slow, it's been paful but it happening. aids tckling in and now people are asking for nails and roofinmaterials. the people have welcod us so much andhey want to get their lives back to normal. >> dr. nancy snyderman for , thanyou. back here. the michan man who claimed he

accidentally shot an killed a teenagern his frontorch has been charged with murder. prosecutors arged 54-year-old theodore wafer with second-degree muer and nslaughter in the death of 19-year-old mcbride. he allegedly shot mcbriden the face earlier ts months when he approached hisome in dearborn heights. cbride's family say she was probably lking for help after a car crash. e search is over for califoia family who disaeared nearly four years ago. now a homicide iestigation begins. authorities confirm the identity of two of the four sets of remas found mday in the desert outside of los angeles is those of josephcstay and his wife summer. e other remains found nearby are believed to behose of their sons josh and gianni. the san bernardino county's eriff say the family w lled but he did not say how. crewsre rushing thi morning to fill a masve sinkhole in florida. check this. 90oot wide old forced

demolition crews to tear down a house in dunedin. the house had to be done condemned after the sinkhole condemne the house a second home is to face the wrecking ball today. louisville's win was not the story of the night. itas the return of kevin ware. you might remember he shattered his leg during last ye's ncaa urnament but he looked to be ck at 100% last night. he jumd in at the end of the first half and split some defenders on that drive to cap a 20-point run. finished with fe points. he had two rebounds in 13 minutes. he looked to be bk to normal. kevin ware bac on the t. >>retty impressive >> i spent some te with him last year after that awful accident. he is an absolutely class act. so it's good to see him back out there on the urt. i never aowed myself to watch the video. but reading theccount was just terrifng what he went through. >> he had such an amazg, positivepirit after that. such an attitude a goo to see

him. it took a lot. you saw that break. took a lot of rehab to get to the point where he is now. >> impreive too he did that in ch a short period of me. >> yes, yes. >> quite a guy. >> craig, thank you. dylan has a check of the forecastor us. >> we have a l of snow actually in parts of the northwes we are going to se in the highest elevations up to a foot of snow. going to take you through the weekend here on futur cast. you c see that t snow is gog to remainn the cascades. slowly moving int theockies throughout the course of the weekend before it fades away by sunday afternoon but look at all ofhe rain that is developing throh the weekend. now we have a b cold front out ahead of it it's nic and warm and behind it it's cold so that clash of air mass is going to create some thunderstorms. we cou even see some severe storms. in red here from parts of eastern iowa into western illinois,hat i where we could have damagg winds and large hail today. but watch what hpens tomorrow. the extt othe severe storms extes from northernichigan right dn into mississippi, but

in this area o orange here througindiana and also into ohio, we could end up with perhaps a tornado outbreak. sothing we will keep a close onomorrow at's a look at the wther good morning. we're watchg a few high clos over san jose right now and very chilly temperaturesround the bay area. 44 in san jose, san rafael and sant rosa in the 40s this morning. san francio right now looking pretty good, 50 degrees. 'll see our temperatures climbing around the bay area, into the low 60s in san jose. some of the warmest temperatures we'll see, santa rosa up to 64 with mostly nny skies. come, gotha city needs a lite help and only one little man who can save the day. you'll hear fro him about his super hero dreamand see the bat d in action right after these ssages.

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from completstrangers all the way up to the president. nbc joe farr got a chance to meetiles before he becambat kid. >> reporter:t looked like a giant pare buto fully understand why thousands filled the streets of s francisco you must take a step back. ♪ ♪ >> what do you think? >> rorter: and listen tohe story after boy with super hero strength. >> i get to be batman. >> repter: you get to be batman? 5-year-old milescott spent male of his life battling a villain named leukia. >>e has beat an awful disease to tt makes him a hero to me. >> reporter: he comes alive wearing his batman costume. >> he mfavorite superhero. >> reporr: in fact, he always dreamed ofecoming the kapcaped crusader so onriday the dream came true. >> it mak me feel happy that

he gets to go and be the hero that he is. >>'m batman! >> reporter: riding shotgun in a laorghini turned bat mobile, a downtown was now transformed into gotham city. first bat kid is rushed to hit a lady i distress w is tied to cable car wires. mis saves the day to everyone's delight. >> hs so cute! reporter: no trim to rest. a robber is robbing bank and batman is called to catch the robber. every step of e way, huge crds greet bat kid and complete strangers packed into downtown s francisco thanks to social cuba. i was a kid wanting tdo th and actually gets to do it which is prey awesome. >> even the president had a message for bat kid. >> way tgo miles, way to se

goam! >> reporr: san fraisco chroclead a special decision before miles received the key to the city on thi day, which is truly tumphant overevil. >> the bat kid was trending on social media all day friday. craig is ove in the orange room with more on what ople had to say about thispecial guy on his specia da >> ts the rage on the social medi thanks forrotecting gotham today, bat kid. you could teh me a thing or twobout fighting crime. i thk we have got the one we arlooking at. >> i love . >> tnks for giving me the day off. >> the is a punchrom bat d. thanksor protecting gotha and giving me the day off.

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looking liv at the the beginning the sunrise at san se. a very cold start to this saturday moing. i'm kris sanchez, along with meteorologist rob mayeda. has aorecast that starts coldnd will sta old. >> as you mentioned, the south bay, 44 clly grees, santa ro down to 36 degrees. san ancisco, we're fog-free this morning. 50 grees. you can see mid and high level cloud off to the ea. this is part of a weather system that's not goi to toss us any rain. the bay area, which wouldlso und help car out some of the smokey ies. going on by.st some high clouds

at times ts will filter the suas you go through t day. south baypproaching close to 50 aund 2:00, peninsula also around 60 toy. in the nth bay some of the warmer temperatures we'll see, mid 60s for the afternoon, i-valley should see the teeratures climbing to the mid 60s as we approach the middle part of the afternoon. >>the fourt bore of the caldott tunnel is finally open for driver, which is good news. that tunnel opened just before 30 with the chp ushering i the first few drivers. there will now be fou dedicated lanes in both dirtions at all times on highway 24. and brighter than t three aller other bores. >> shots fed at a shopping center es with san jose's 42nd

homide of the year andhis morng police are still looking for the killer. police were called out around shots fired at a shoppingenter on west san carlos street. one othe patrol officers nearby heard t gun fir himself. poce found a man shot when he arved. the man may have been sitting in hisickup truckhen the shooting happened. the man died an hour and a half later. >> we're following a developing story this morni, what could be a multi-million llar clericalerror. the dispute over the contrt between bart and its unions and lastight bart directors voted to head back to the bargaining table. the problem bart disputes t wording in theontract that would require the transit agency to cover six weeks of paid family leave. however, union leaders say that proposal was agree to and signed off by both parties. thomas hock, who has been the lead netiator, is now off that job. board members will name a new

negotiator so. could cost bart u to $44 the million over four years. >> coming up this mornin it was a day to remember. you w some of it on the story." show but it our local wel tell you more about it. batkid takes over and saves the day. we'll see you here.

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>> do youike this? i hosted the show. they gave me a little grief about not joining in on the no shave bank. so this nice dy from west virginia gave is to me. she brought me some facial hair so i could get into the game it's a nice lk on you too. we he a whole bunch re. >> it looks so good. very od. you're putting those boys to shame during the wk. >> i can't talk th this oni don't think. >> minor tail. > we got a lot to tell about. a controversyver a california high school mascot. some people say it's offensive but why the school i defending it. we will tell but that coming up. also toronto's controversial mayor continue to take on his critics. ce again, this comes after city counc voted to strip him of some of his powers on fray. >> also the week ended pretty

badly for alec baldwin who was just suspended from his msnbc show for comments he mad during a run-in wh the paparazzi. we will get io that in our hollywd headlines. we are continuing our series "inspired by"nd talk about the people who insred us this morning. i feel fortunate to introduce you to a couple who found streng in helping others. they create a lovingribute to their son who was lost in the september 11th attack and i am excited about at. first, a check of the weher here with dylan. >> we are good with the crowd now. we have ton ofbirthdays. 16nd 15nd 30ish. you don't look a day over 29 so that is perfect. we are going to see a good amount of rain in parts of the plains, pecially later on this afternoon. we have got e chance of some strong storms, especially through iowand into western illinois today o ahead o a

pretty strg cold fnt that is th dividing line between really warm air and temperatures 20 degrees above average to the cold air behind it why weave mountain snow and up to a foo ofnow in the cass daeds and rockies. look what happens tomorrow. we cou see a severe weather outbreak, especiallycross parts ofhe great lakes into thehio river valley where tornadoes are certainly possle and look at all of that red from new york state right down io eas like alabama and mississippi d extending west to illinois. so there is a chance we could end up wit se strong srms tomorr out ahead of that fronts and tempetures will just tumble back behind it dropping from 70s into t 40s by the time we start off the that's a look at the wea right now in s francisco, 're seeing some patchy clouds go by, chilly, 50 degrees in santa rosa. even witthe sun shine today, it's going to feel cooltside

as that cold air spins down from the nort inhe south bay low 60s, san francisco 61. warmest teeratures out toward pleasanton, 67 degrees r this afternoon and breezy conditions in the north bay. heading do you kn to albany, georgia. our affiliate wlad and it's the mclb dirty devil dog mud run. i got all of that in. they hit the course with marines military star and it's full of obstacles and fun. a mascot at a southern california schl is coming under fire this rning and craig has more on that story on for us. >> erica, ts is the masco for this high school. one grou is calling it an intolerable steotype and asking the moss cot be change

la night the members from the community and the school met to talk about it. >> the mascot looks lik a villain, like a angry arab with a hook nos and a beard. >> not like they are saying anything to denigrate but it was acally to honor. >> reporter: the mascot is under the brigh lights. the school boa held an emergency meeting in california last night discuing whether the mascot is a hurtful stereotype or a time-honed reesentative of the hool's history and pride. >> someone says ioffended, then we should listen. >> our citizens are very proud of who we arend we will continue to fight of the mascot change. >> reporter: early this month the adc sent the school dtrict a letter saying it was appalled by the mascot. >> you could havendividuals that probay never meet a arab or an arab amerin and their own exposure is what they see on a billboard or what they sein a certain film or tv show. >> reporter:rom disney's

"aladd" to "back to the future." mid east scholars have complain about stereotypes in popular culture. the sam issue is playi out on the in the stageff the waington redskins football team. the arab mascot goes back to the 1930s. >> we were always very proud to use the mascot as our arab and we have changed it two other tis jo times. >> we do respect the history of the area. we do respect the ties t the regi. >> reporter: no decision was reached st night but compromise seems to be in e air. >> the facthat the name has been taken off the table, we g keep the name. eryone kind of agre, though, th the mascot may need a facelift. >> reporter: any changes could be deced as soon as a news conference on tuesdaynd when officials plan t meet ain. interesting to see what they end up wh. craig,thanks.

to toronto's embattled mayor who continues to lose support from h coeagues. theity council voted totrip him of some o his powers but the mayor sd he is not going a anywhere >> reporter: this is a small taste of the ccus in toron these days. >> talk tyou in a bit. >> reporter: doug ford battles just to get tohe office. it not easy being the brother mayor rob ford. but do's support for his brother, along with e belief that he shouldtay and do the job, is unwavering. at what point does the mayor's behavior become problem for his job? >> well, let's talk out that. rob ce out and admittethat -- when he starts drinki, ifou want to call it binge drinking, that is unacceptab behavior. he knows that.

he is working -- >> repter: he also said he smoked crack. >> he d and that is totally unacceptable. in one of his dnken stupors, i believe. >> reporter: should the city have to accept tt apology? >> that is up to the people of the city. >> reporter: after thursday's live press nference, there a que a few people who don't accept the apogy. i don't think we can broadcast it on tv but we just broadcast tha on tv. >> reporter: the mayor denied making aulgar sgestiono a female aid but, in the process, was equally as vulgar. have you sat him down at any point and said, rob, you are not doing yourse any favors? >> a hundred mes. a hundred times. but, again, you look at h record, he h to get his peonal issues taken ca of, which he is doing and he's addrsing. but let me tl the people of the unid states, don't count rob rd out on election da >> rorter: election day is october of 2014. if the mayor doe't resign, his brotr and the cy of toronto could be inor a lon year.

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this morng in today' hollywood headlines, alec baldwin suspended from his cab talk shownd cld adam levine be named "peopl sexy man alive? >> l's start off are alec baldwin. what is going on here? >> msnbc has suspended his show "up late" f two episodes after hesed a gay sr during a fight with a photographer. he tooko twitter to apologize. anders cooper came back and saidno, it's not goodenough. a stalker got convicted and she is in jail andhen he's had five differentrun-s with photographers and reporters and c with cars. >>e cannot control it.

enough is enough, your apologies just don't work. is suspended for two episodes >> a few weeks ago we tked jay-z and barneys who went thugh racial profiling they denied it and jay-z has this clothing line and a lot of people want him to pull it. what has he cided? >> he says he will contie the clothing line with barney's and he has taken a leadership role. 100% of the procee from that collection go to h ornization. before it was just 25%. he ss he wants to use th platform to make a change and not just pull outf the al. >> a lot of people will tch at one. adam levine w he yterday in the studio talking to savann and she pressed him on the rumors he was theexiest manf the year f "people" magazine. >> we are thinking he is the one. adam knows he has to do a photo

oot. he w playing coy. youave to do the interviews but a brouhahaver this because a lot of people are saying, rn going has never won and shouldn't he be the eople" sexiest man alive? >> personally? >> i was at the victoria's secret show d adam was sitting there becau his fiancee is modeling. he is hot. >> who gets your vot >> i want to talk t you about dario anchitti, the four-time indy 500 champ retiring and basically will hp his marrge? >> he has been married for 11 years for ashley judd but they haveeen separated but after the acdent she came by his de and docto forced him to retire. it wasn't a choice. ashley have been tweeting away at fs saying we can'telieve

he is retiring andll good thin and maybe they areully back together. neither ever filed f divorce. >> kind of a busy week. >> it's been busy. >> you should take a rest now. >> i got to keep up. >> thanks. nice to have you back. you can catch enews weekdays at 7:00 eastern pacific. up next t story behind the people who inspire me as we continue our series "inspired ." ill tell y i will tell you how they turned their tragedy into inspiration. [ male nouncer ] pillsburgrands biscuits.

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♪ we're back with more of our weekong "inspired by" series on "today." this morning it's erica's rn. >>'m excited to have the opportunity to tell you about the people whonspire me. liz and steve alderman. i feltn insnt connectio when he first met themnd in awe ever since. not only the t amazing people

i've ever met but e way they managed to turn a tragedy no pant should ever have to experience ia way to help over a hundred thousand people which is even re reason why i just love them. >> peter was our yngest child. he was eraordinarily afctionate and loving. i mean, he would kiss hi mothe in public. >> heade everybody feel that he cared about them. >> reporter: peter alderman was 25 yearsld on september 11th and he was in a meeting on the 106th floor and he was the when t planes hit. in t time it followed, it was really important to live, to find a way to honor per's life. >> we knew that we could do thing for peter. peter was gone. bu if we could take peoe who had survived an act of terrorism and return them to life, we knew that that would be the perfect

memori. >> reporter: there is something about liz and steve from the first time i met them that really stuck wit me. part of it was the way they turned thiserrible tragedy in their family into a triump >> the peter alderman foundation trained health care workers to treat their local traumatizedpopulation. >> we areperating in two plays in cambodia and north of uganda and th slums of nairobi. >> a child soldr, patrick, was forced to kill two of his sisters. he spent number of yearsn the bush doing horrible things. when retned home, he had awful, awful problems in terms offunctioning. today, patricks really doing well. he is married. he has a child. he named the cld after our

worker at the inic. >> i think liz and steve have caught me it's okay to be ary about sothing, but it's also so much more powerful to take that anger and to turn it into something good. >> this is an eventhat was to change therajectory of o lives. >> i always believed that if i lost a child, i would never be able to stop screamg, and you can't keep screamin you eitr kid yourself liltly or figuratively o you put one foot in front of t other. >> i'm inspired by them and their passion and their commitnt to not let their son die in vain. >> when you get involved in something th is bigger than yourself and outside of yourself, no longer grieve all the me. >>e have had wondeul people who hav come into our lives and wenow that we really are leaving that mark for peter and that the world is a bter place

becaushe lived. >> they are also involved in the foundaon. janes their cfo and admistrative director. what i love wt they do they only work in po-conflict structures and the infrastructure there to set up a clinic and they stay for ten years, in that time to get the clin sets up ahen leave d they go somewhere else where they areeeded and the cost of returning someone a functioninlife which is their go is $43. >> all while honoringingheir s son. >> a great stor >> my insration tomorrow is a sile dad after diagnosed with terminal cancer came up with uniq way to spend as much time with his dahter. we will be rightack. firs these messages. ♪usic

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around santa rosa. quick check of san francisco shows you clear skies lking from downtow back towards the golden gate bridge. during theay today, you might notice high cloud coming fro e north. it'sart of the reason why it's so chilly this morning. this cool, dry air has dropped down from oegon and into the bay area. we're looking at partlyloudy skies i the south y, arod the peninsula today also in the low 60s. san francisco seeing you temperatures climb int the low 60s by the afternoon. some of the wmer spots we'll see inland locations around the tri-valley in north bay. mid to upper 60 nea the i-valley. you might have notic some changes in your ven-day foreca. we'll talk more about that in a few minutes. >> rob, new this morninthe fourth bore of the cdecott innnel is not open for drivers